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Quotes for Life

"Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should....My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether be life or by death."

~ The Apostle Paul: Eph 6:18-20; Phil 1:20

"Lord, I intend it to thy glory, and let no profane misinterpreter abuse it to thy diminution."~John Donne

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."~ John Adams

"You have enemies? Good. It means you've stood up for something."~ Winston Churchill

"I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence."~ Ben Jonson

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

~ George Washington

"Country music is about new love and it’s about old love. It’s about gettin’ drunk and gettin’ sober. It’s about leavin’ and it’s about comin’ home. It’s real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want. We’re not offended, ’cause we know what we’re all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary."

~ Jeff Foxworthy

"The most dangerous predator of liberals is the real world. They hide from it in college campuses."~ www.imao.us

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!"~ Edna Ferber

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument."~ Robert Frost

"I'm a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ."~Ann Coulter

"Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother."~ Phyllis Schlafly

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."~ G. K. Chesterson

"It isn't going to bed with a man that proves you're in love with him. It's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful, everyday world with him that counts."~ Yours, Mine and Ours

"I owe nothing to women's lib."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

~ Henry VI

"We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic."

~ Rush Limbaugh

"True religion and true philosophy must ultimately arrive at the same conclusion."

~S.S. Smith

"There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit."

~ Jack Dake

"If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"What I felt like saying was, 'I've produced my third child and my sixth book since I last saw you. Aren't either of these things more important, more interesting, than my size?' But no - my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book; finally, something to celebrate! Maybe this seems funny or trivial, but it's really not."~ JK Rowling

"Dear LordLest I continueMy complacent wayHelp me to rememberSomehow out thereA man died for me today.As long as there be warI then mustAsk and answerAm I worth dying for?"

~Anon

"[Judgment] comes from four sources: God, nature, diligence and conversation. Serve the first, and the rest will serve you."~ Ben Jonson

"I think political correctness is a wonderful fad. Probably not as spiritually uplifting as the hula-hoop, but undoubtedly better for the health."~ Waiting for God

"Our God and soldier we alike adore. At the brink of danger, not before. After deliverance, both alike requited. Our God's forgotten and our soldiers slighted."~ Oliver North

"The way to tell the professional writers from the amateur writers is that the amateurs only write when they feel like it."~ Jerry Van Cook

"Remember that only in cheesy romance novels is the heroine guaranteed to find true love without the risk of vulnerability or pain."~ Dear Prudence column

"We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue."~ from "The Birth of a Nation"

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move."~Captain America

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."~ John Stuart Mill

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."~ Alexis de Tocqueville

"I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls."~ J.K. Rowling

Wisdom from the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan:------------------------------Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget...in the final analysis...that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.

January 12, 2010

Something to Blog About

I have something to blog about today other than the lack of letters from SoldierMan due to field exercises. blah.

1. To accept the award, you must post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted you the award, and a link to their blog.

2. Pass the award on to approximately 15 other blogs that you recently discovered, and think are great!

3. Contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

First, I should say it's hard for me to think about blogs I found recently. I'm sure you can relate: Once you start reading someone's blog, after a week you feel like you've known them forever, right? So, yeah, I can't say for sure I've found 15 blogs recently. And 15 is a LOT. But here are a few I've run across more recently than not:

Tracy at Wages in the Making. I'm following their adoption journey. You should, too.And if you have room in your heart, help out with a donation. (She did not ask me for this plug, so it's not shameless. But really, donate the amount of one run to Starbucks and help a child get a home.)

Stefanie at Yeah, Honestly. Fine German lady studying environmental engineering (right?) married to American soldier. I love reading her blog, because she has such a unique perspective on so many things. (And your adventures make me very passionate about REAL immigration reform! Seriously, we need to stop punishing the people who are just trying to follow the rules.)

Ashley at Spoonfuls of Sugar. Fellow Disney enthusiast, only she's got one-up on me as she and her hubs actually got to live and work for Disney for a year. *sigh* coulda-shoulda-woulda.

Charity at A Day in the Life of 5. We met while our husbands were preparing for BCT, since they left within a couple of weeks of each other. Even though she lives on the side of the country (and I in the middle) I feel like we've got a special bond. Most of the other milwives I talk to are all already long past this phase, so it's nice to have someone who can walk through it with you.

Mrs. G.I. Joe at ACUs, Stiletto Shoes and Pretty Pink Tutus. I totally envy her, not only because she has an adorable little tutu wearer, but also can now claim "published writer" as a title, which I cannot as yet. But she's good, so she deserves it. :)

Perspectives from a Pianist. I won't tell you her real name (although we go to church together and I do know it) because she doesn't have it posted. But this little friend of mine, studying piano at a local uni, makes up in spunk what she lacks in stature. One of those people you just love to hear talk about anything.

And lastly, of course, the fabulous Big Journalism, the latest sibling in the amazing 'Big' blog family. Again, if you haven't checked it out yet, do so today. Run, don't walk.

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comments:

you're awesome!! thanks for the prayers and honorable mention! - after a conference call with the agency, my neck is a ball of knots. This is gonna be a long, long lesson in patience. You would think with 3 kids, I would have gained a bit of that by now, huh?

It should go without saying that everything I write here is my opinion and doesn't reflect any official attitude or position of my husband, the US Army or the US government. But I'd be willing to bet I'm in agreement with the majority of Americans, at least most of the time.